Garena fake scam warning and how to recognize it

Garena is a company that distributes hot games in Vietnam today such as FIFA Online 4, Lien Quan mobile, Free Fire. Players often tend to deposit money into the game to serve their own needs. Many bad guys have taken advantage of this to create fake Garena websites to trick players into depositing money. So how not to lose money unjustly for scam websites? Let's Anti-Phishing (CLD) find out in the article below.

I. Actual situation of frauds

1. Garena's Card Loading Page

Garena is a company that distributes hot games in Vietnam today such as FIFA Online 4, Lien Quan mobile, Free Fire. The number of players is very high, Lien Quan Mobile alone has recorded 23 million players logged in in January 2023. Accompanying that is the need to recharge the game is very large.

Following that trend, a series of websites that faked Garena's card loading page were born. These sites not only scam to take over assets after 1 deposit, but also take over players' accounts, including Garena accounts and Facebook accounts. According to the statistics of Garena Customer Support department, there are an average of 60 cases of mistakenly depositing money into fake sites every month.

2. Fake other types of card loading pages

Not only forging Garena, a series of other fake card loading pages often appear, including scams to recharge phones and pay fees.

Scam sites often offer attractive exchange rates, come with many promotions, or claim to have the ability to increase the amount of money deposited many times (deposited 100,000 VND but the account received up to 500,000 VND). ).

Phone card top-up fraud has been rampant in Vietnam since 2015, but so far has not really stopped. Now that many games on phones and computers are becoming "hot", scams are gradually turning to the purpose of depositing money into the game or buying and selling high-class equipment in the game.

3. Garena's membership page forgery

Membership is a Garena program for its loyal customers. Memberships tier is determined by the amount deposited into the game. With each tier, Garena will have certain incentives and some proportional gifts.

Taking advantage of the psychology of wanting to get rare gifts, the rate is low, many bad guys are creating fake membership pages with a high rate of winning rare gifts that make many people believe they are lucky and introduce themselves to the site. This web comes to other players.

When users log into these fake membership sites, most of them will have their accounts taken over.

4. Fake event pages, get gifts

Many of Garena's games regularly launch events or give gifts to players. Many bad guys have taken advantage of this to launch event websites and give fake gifts to scam players.

As well as spoofing membership sites, players who log into these sites often have their accounts taken over. There is also the possibility of property being appropriated if you follow the transaction requirements to receive the gift.

II. Summary of websites that load fake cards with statistics of CLD

Currently, in Anti-Phishing database recorded 66 fraudulent recharge sites, nearly 300 sites impersonating Garena.

III. Detailed instructions on how to recognize

1. Identify scams by scamadviser.com

ScamAdviser is one of the reputable websites in the world that analyzes the safety or fraud of other websites. Use ScamAdviser to check links "membershiplienquan-garenavn[.]com“.

ScamAdviser reviews here Not is a reputable website because:

Although this website has a valid SSL certificate, this certificate only shows the security of the communication channel between your machine and the website. SSL certificates also come in many levels, some scammers also prepare their website with a free SSL certificate.

In the positive highlights, the 2 tools show that the site is safe largely because the site is likely free of malware. So if you want to test a website, you should use many different tools.

2. Identify by virustotal.com

VirusTotal is a website that combines many anti-virus software and is an online scan tool to check for viruses that regular antivirus software can miss. Use VirusTotal to check “membershiplienquan-garenavn[.]com“.

3. Identify by scam.vn

In addition, users can also check the reliability of the website by Scam.vn.

4. Identify by browser installed with security protection

Currently, some browsers have security settings to prevent and warn users when you visit unsafe websites.

Especially some browsers like Microsoft Edge, Opera and Coc Coc have built-in blacklist data from Anti-Phishing without you having to install anything.

5. Identify by website of Anti-Phishing

One of the fastest and most accurate ways to know if there are websites impersonating Garena is to visit them chongluadao.vnPhishing websites are constantly updated so you can keep up with the latest information.

The steps to use Anti-Phishing to check a link are as follows:

Alternatively, you can directly enter the website link like “membershiplienquangarenavn[.]com"good"napthe[.]pro” into the search bar to check.

IV. Some notes and recommendations to know to avoid being scammed

1. Recommendations for Garena's Customers

Some popular official Garena channels include:

When you need any support from Garena, look to the official communication channels.

Promotions, events, gifts from Garena will always be updated and announced in official communication channels. Therefore, you absolutely should not easily trust terrible promotional information that cannot be confirmed on the official website.

2. Recommended for users who often recharge via web

Currently, there are many deposit and card recharge sites with many different login and payment methods. Before you perform account login or transaction at any website/app, verify if it is a reputable, official website/app to avoid account hijacking and asset.

Especially, do not trust messages/articles about terrible promotions, if such information is not posted by official communication channels.